Telephone pad and pencil holder of one piece construction



Jan. 7, 1958 F. E. NEDBALEK 2,813,673

TELEPHONE PAD AND PENCIL HOLDERDOF'ENE PIECE CONSTRUCTION Filed May 17, 1956 INVENTOR. FRANK E. NEDBALEK United States Patent TELEPHONE PAD AND PENCIL HOLDER OF ONE PIECE CONSTRUCTION Frank E. Nedbalek, Cleveland, Ohio, assignor to Carl J. Theken, Lyndhnrst, Ohio Application May 17, 1956, Serial No. 585,447

3 Claims. (Cl. 45-.5)

The present invention relates generally as indicated to a pad and pencil holder, and more particularly to a pad and pencil holder which is adapted to be attached to a telephone so that paper and pencil will always be available for making notes during telephone conversations.

It is a primary object of this invention to provide a holder of the character indicated which is of simple onepiece construction providing a pocket for a pad of paper and a support for a pencil, both the pad and pencil being readily accessible for use.

It is another object of this invention to provide a holder of the character indicated which is designed to be detachably secured to the front skirt of a telephone base without in any way interfering with the proper operation of the internal mechanism of the telephone or without interfering with the operation and visibility of the dial thereof.

Other objects and advantages of the present invention will become apparent as the following description proceeds.

To the accomplishment of the foregoing and related ends, the invention, then, comprises the features hereinafter fully described and particularly pointed out in the claims, the following description and the annexed drawings setting forth in detail a certain illustrative embodiment of the invention, this being indicative however, of but one of a few of the various ways in which the principle of the invention may be employed.

In said annexed drawing:

Fig. 1 is a perspective view of a preferred form of the present invention showing the same as installed on the front skirt of a telephone base;

Fig. 2 is a top plan view of the present holder, the paper pad having been removed and the pencil being shown in dot-dash lines;

Fig. 3 is an end elevation view showing how the holder herein is secured to the front skirt of a telephone;

Fig. 4 is an end elevation view showing the holder properly installed in place on the telephone;

Fig. 5 is a developed view of the punched-out sheet metal stock showing in dotted lines where bends are made to form the completed holder; and

Fig. 6 is a rear fragmentary perspective view, a part of the rear wall of the holder being broken away to more clearly show the construction of the holder.

Referring now more particularly to the drawings, the holder 1 herein is preferably made from sheet metal stock 2 of any desired thickness, such as about .030", for example, said stock being punched out as shown in Fig. 5 to provide tabs or tongues along one edge, the end ones 3 of which are adapted to grip the ends 4 of the holder and the remaining ones 5 and 6 of which constitute a pencil holder. The longer ones of the pencil holder tabs 5 are bent at an angle of, say, 75 with respect to the plane of the sheet stock along the dotted line 7.

The opposite sides of the blank 2 are formed with notches 8, the area therebetween constituting the bottom 9 of the holder and the adjacent areas constituting the rear wall 10, the front wall 11, and the opposite ends 12 2,818,673 Patented an. 7, 1958 r6 we of the holder when bent at right angles along the dotted lines 13, 14, 15, and 16.

Adjacent the bottom of the rear wall 10 are punched out two clips 17 which, as best shown in Figs. 3 and 4, are adapted to frictionally grip the front skirt of the telephone base B between such rear wall 10 and said clips 17.

When the blank 2 is bent along the dotted parallel lines 1314 and 15-16, the ends 12 will be parallel to each other inside the ends 4, and likewise the rear and front walls 10 and 11 will be parallel. With the blanks 2 thus bent, the lugs 3 are bent over the ends 4 to grip the latter.

When the holder 1 is viewed from either of its ends 4, the relatively displaced lugs 5 and 6 form a V-shaped cradle for a pencil P, and by reason of the spaces between the lugs 5, the pencil P may be easily grasped and lifted out of the holder 1, and similarly, by reason of the spaced lugs 6, the edge of the paper pad PP may be easily grasped and lifted out of the holder 1.

It is to be noted that the clips 17 adjacent their upper ends are bent inwardly and thence outwardly so as to securely grip the front skirt of the telephone base B even though such skirt may vary slightly in thickness.

In addition to placing a paper pad PP into the holder pocket, a card of the same size may be disposed in the pocket having printed thereon a list of legends such as Fire Department, Police Department, Doctor, Gas Company, Electric Company, School etc. with spaces for the telephone numbers.

Other modes of applying the principle of the invention may be employed, changes being made as regards the details described, provided the features stated in any of the following claims, or the equivalent of such, be employed.

I therefore particularly point out and distinctly claim as my invention:

1. A pad and pencil holder of one-piece construction for attachment to a telephone base comprising a unitary sheet of stock bent to provide an open top box having parallel front and rear walls, and end walls each constituted by extensions of said front and rear Walls that are bent to lie in nesting, contiguous relation, one of the extensions of each nesting pair having tab means folded over the other one of the extensions to hold the front and rear walls in spaced apart parallel relation, the rear wall having clips struck therefrom to engage said telephone base and secure the holder thereto, and the upper edge of one of said front and rear walls being formed to constitute a pencil holding means.

2. A fastener-free pad and pencil holder of one-piece construction for attachment to a telephone base comprising a unitary sheet of stock bent to provide an open top box having parallel front and rear walls, and end walls each constituted by extensions of said front and rear walls that are bent to lie in nesting, contiguous relation, one of the extensions of each nesting pair having tab means folded over the other one of the extensions to hold the front and rear walls in spaced apart parallel relation, said rear wall having resilient clips punched rearwardly adjacent the botom edge to engage the skirt of said telephone base between the clips and said rear wall, and said rear wall having angularly related lugs extending from the top thereof to receive a pencil therebetween.

3. A fastener-free pad and pencil holder of one-piece construction for attachment to a skirt of a telephone base comprising a unitary sheet of stock bent to provide an open top box having parallel front and rear walls, and end walls each constituted by extensions of said front and rear walls that are bent to lie in nesting, contiguous relation, one of the extensions of each nesting pair having tab means folded over the other one of the extensions to hold the front and rear walls in spaced apart parallel relation, the rear wall having resilient clips stamped from the bottom thereof adjacent the intervening strip portion, said clips being bent upwardly and forwardly and then upwardly and rearwardly .to securely grip the telephone skirt between the .back wall and said clips, said rear wall terminating at its upper side in spaced lugs, some lugs serving as a. continuation of said back wall and the remaining lugs being bent to extend angularly upwardly and rearwardly t-o define a pencil-receiving support between the lugs.

References Cited in the file of this patent UNITED STATES PATENTS Starbird Mar. 28, 1916 Fagan June 13, 1950 Watts July 29, 1952 Dorenbaum Oct. 20, 1953 

